Tom Morello is no stranger to Chicago and the injustices going on in our fair town. Having been raised in Libertyville and having a keen revolutionary lean, Morello felt like […]
Beauty School Dropout has packed more into its first five years than most bands do in their entire careers. Championed by Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz and blink-182’s Mark Hoppus, […]
In my years living and working on the North Side of Chicago, the Vic Theater has had an interesting evolution. It started as the Victoria Theatre with vaudeville shows before […]
Franz Ferdinand has had a career with growing gaps between new albums for a couple of years now, which might lead one to expect they are running low on ideas. […]
Acclaimed ’90s rockers Jerry Cantrell and Richard Patrick have every reason to rest on their laurels. On Sunday night at the Vic Theatre, they chose not to. Cantrell, best known […]
In what many publications are calling one of the year’s best records, Parquet Courts channeled angst into optimism on their fifth full-length album, Wide Awake. Their recent record almost reads […]
Khruangbin isn’t a band that puts out singles. They don’t have a singer. Most of their songs can’t be distinguished from each other. They are hardly any words to sing […]
Instruments speak for themselves. That’s in a performance by DeVotchKa, featuring a revolving door of voices at Vic Theatre Thursday in Chicago. Devotchka is renowned for its multitude of sounds […]
The curated weekend is here and it’s a big one! So big in fact that there are quite a few events in the calendar that just couldn’t fit into this […]
[soliloquy id=”27100″] Photos by Elif Geris A bombastic bass and soaring guitar riffs, along with a blinding color wheel of lights, accompanied Unknown Mortal Orchestra at The Vic Theatre Thursday […]
To say that Mac DeMarco is eccentric is putting it lightly; but that’s honestly why I, and his ever-growing legion of fans, love him in the first place. After seeing […]
I’d seen Real Estate in concert before—at Pitchfork Music Festival, as the sun started to descend. It was the perfect forum for such breezy tunes. Cut to this past Friday […]